Chapman, Doxsee, & Ramke: January 22, 2010, Denver, CO

Octopus Books Presents:
J'Lyn Chapman, Julie Doxsee & Bin Ramke
Poetry Reading at The Dikeou Collection
6:30 PM
1615 California Street (at 16th Street), Suite 515

Please join us for this reading to celebrate Bin Ramke's newest book & Julie Doxsee's return to Denver.

J'Lyn Chapman holds a PhD from the University of Denver, where she studied text and image in the work of W.G. Sebald. She is the Graduate Academic Advisor and a lecturer at Naropa. As a writer, J'Lyn is working on a series of lyrical essays about sorrow and memory as well as a critical essay on images and text. Her work can be found in Sleepingfish, Fence, Thuggery & Grace and Conjunctions. Her chapbook, Bear Stories, was published by Calamari Press.

Julie Doxsee holds a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Denver. Recent publications include Undersleep from Octopus Books 2008 and Objects for a Fog Death forthcoming in 2010 from Black Ocean. She currently lives in Istanbul on the European shores of the Bosphorus, in a village once known as a summer retreat for Ottomans on holiday. She teaches creative writing, academic writing, and literature courses at Koc University, a private university near the Black Sea.

Bin Ramke's most recent book is Theory of Mind: New and Selected Poems from Omnidawn. He edits the Denver Quarterly and is on the English Department faculty at the University of Denver, and also at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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